Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner’s
Eaux Claires
festival just wrapped up its fourth edition in Eau Claire, WI. The
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, which weren’t announced until the beginning of the festival’s first day, included a Saturday (7/7) night set from
The National
on Eaux Claires’ stage in the round, Flambeaux. The band had a few surprises in store for Eaux Claires, including guest appearances and the live debut of a couple of new songs. After starting off their set with
Phoebe Bridgers
adding vocals to “Sorrow,” The National debuted two new songs, including one where they were joined by
Josh Kaufman
and
Mike Lewis
.

The National
Phoebe Bridgers
Josh Kaufman
Mike Lewis

Later in the set,
Julien Baker appeared on a satellite stage to perform her song “Appointments,” which segued into The National’s own “Fake Empire,” with Julien adding backing vocals.
Sharon Van Etten
and
Chastity Brown
also made guest appearances, and the set ended with a singalong of “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.” Watch video from The National’s set, Phoebe and Julien appearances included, below.

A different approach was taken in the work of the British psychologist Ian Deary, among others. He argued that inspection time is a particularly useful means of measuring intelligence. It is thought that individual differences in intelligence may derive in part from differences in the rate of intake and processing of simple stimulus information. In the inspection-time task, a person looks at two vertical lines of unequal length and is asked to identify which of the two is longer. Inspection time is the length of time of stimulus presentation each individual needs in order to discriminate which of the two lines is the longest. Some research suggests that more-intelligent individuals are able to discriminate the lengths of the lines in shorter inspection times.

Other cognitive psychologists have studied human intelligence by constructing
computer
models of human cognition. Two leaders in this field were the American computer scientists
Allen Newell
and
Herbert A. Simon
. In the late 1950s and early ’60s, they worked with computer expert
Cliff Shaw
to construct a computer model of human
problem solving
. Called the
General Problem Solver
, it could find solutions to a wide range of fairly structured problems, such as logical proofs and mathematical word problems. This research, based on a
heuristic
procedure called “means-ends analysis,” led Newell and Simon to propose a general theory of problem solving in 1972. (
See also
Thought: Types of thinking
.)

Most of the problems studied by Newell and Simon were fairly well structured, in that it was possible to identify a discrete set of steps that would lead from the beginning to the end of a problem. Other investigators have been concerned with other kinds of problems, such as how a text is comprehended or how people are reminded of things they already know when reading a text. The psychologists Marcel Just and Patricia Carpenter, for example, showed that complicated intelligence-test items, such as figural matrix problems involving reasoning with geometric shapes, could be solved by a sophisticated
computer program
at a level of accuracy comparable to that of human test takers. It is in this way that a computer reflects a kind of “intelligence” similar to that of humans. One critical difference, however, is that programmers structure the problems for the computer, and they also write the code that enables the computer to solve the problems. Humans “encode” their own information and do not have personal programmers managing the process for them. To the extent that there is a “programmer,” it is in fact the person’s own brain.

All of the cognitive theories described so far rely on what psychologists call the “serial processing of information,” meaning that in these examples, cognitive processes are executed in series, one after another. Yet the assumption that people process chunks of information one at a time may be incorrect. Many psychologists have suggested instead that cognitive processing is primarily
parallel
. It has proved difficult, however, to distinguish between serial and parallel models of information processing (just as it had been difficult earlier to distinguish between different factor models of human intelligence). Advanced techniques of mathematical and computer modeling were later applied to this problem. Possible solutions have included “
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” models of the mind, as proposed by the psychologists David E. Rumelhart and Jay L. McClelland. These models postulated that many types of information processing occur within the brain at once, rather than just one at a time.

Similar trends are afoot in colder climes. The Arctic shows no signs of returning to the conditions of reliable ice cover that have persisted at least since data was first collected in the late 19th century, scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
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. Permafrost temperatures hit record-high levels in 2016, and the region as a whole iswarming at twice the global rate, they wrote.

If you think that's the worst thing the coming century of climate change has in store, check what's happening to agricultural land.

Location, Location, Location

Land at least moderately suitable for agriculture will barely grow this century

Source: Global Agricultural Land Resources – A High Resolution Suitability Evaluation and Its Perspectives until 2100 under Climate Change Conditions (PLOS ONE, 2014)

Production fromthe world's farmsneeds to grow ata headlong pace over the coming decades. Rising populations and growing incomes that are already driving up consumption of land-intensive produce such as meat mean demand for farm products will rise between 70 percent and 110 percent between 2005 and 2050,
according to the UN's Food Agriculture Organization
.

When parents or support providers become concerned that their child is not following a typical developmental course, they turn to experts, including psychologists, educators and medical professionals, for a diagnosis.

At first glance, some people with autism may appear to have an intellectual disability, sensory processing issues, or problems with hearing or vision. To complicate matters further, these conditions can co-occur with autism. However, it is important to distinguish autism from other conditions, as an accurate and
early autism diagnosis can provide the basis for an appropriate educational and treatment program.

early autism diagnosis can provide the basis for an appropriate educational and treatment program.

A brief observation in a single setting cannot present a true picture of someone’s abilities and behaviors.
The person’s developmental history and input from parents, caregivers and/or teachers are important components of an accurate diagnosis.

A brief observation in a single setting cannot present a true picture of someone’s abilities and behaviors.